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Evelyn Sullivan interview
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1979 [date recorded] (Creation)
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Interviews recorded as research for Bossin's book "Settling Clayoquot" (Sound Heritage Series no. 33).
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Evelyn Sullivan RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Evelyn Sullivan discusses early days in the Tofino-Clayoquot area. Mrs. Sullivan talks about: her grandmother being the first white woman in Tofino, 1881; her family went to Tofino to trade furs with the Natives; memories of her grandfather; warring Native tribes in the 1880s in Tofino; Native cemetery -- her grandfather burned it to keep his children from playing in it; grandfather "rescued sailors from being eaten by the Natives"; her father was apprenticed as a millwright; her parents married in 1904; relations between Norwegians and English in Tofino in early 20th century; she liked the Norwegians but found the Scots to be perpetual drunks; anecdote about Joe Bryce; Fred Tibbs -- odd but harmless; bad luck at Dream Island (Tibbs' Island); anecdote about desecrating an Indian grave; Dr. Dixson, his daughter Winnie; Brinkman, an artist, teaching her and her girlfriends the art of flirtation; smuggling of rum and opium; Chinese immigration to Canada; Tom Stone and his boat; Ahousat became dangerous; only beer parlour was at Clayoquot; anecdote about a chambermaid being forced into prostitution; comments about George Nicholson; the Leach murder; she believes the Japanese families in area were most likely spies; Japanese internment was for the best; anecdote about a wise Native man; Natives did not mix with the whites; Mr. Guthrie's life.
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Bob Bossin, 1981-09-09
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- Partial transcript on file.
- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-243.
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- Copying Restriction: None
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- Copyright Status: Copyright assigned to B.C. Archives by Bob Bossin, 1982-04-07.
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Excerpts from this interview appeared in "Settling Clayoquot", Sound Heritage Series no. 33.
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Accession number(s): T3878
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speaker: Evelyn Rose Evans Sullivan, interviewer: Bob Bossin